reraise

English

Etymology

re- + raise

Noun

reraise (plural reraises)

  1. (poker) A raise of a bet which itself constituted a raise of a previous bet.

Verb

reraise (third-person singular simple present reraises, present participle reraising, simple past and past participle reraised)

  1. To raise again or anew.
    • 1981, Arthur Coleman Danto, The transfiguration of the commonplace: a philosophy of art
      I have reraised these points here because we now have at least this piece of theoretical apparatus to work with...
    • 2009, David M. Beazley, Python Essential Reference
      If any kind of exception is raised, a rollback() operation is performed and the exception is reraised.
  2. (poker) To raise another raise.

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